[PATCH 3/5] x86: align x86 arch with generic CPU modalias handling

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Wed Jan 29 12:16:24 EST 2014


On 01/29/2014 08:50 AM, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> The x86 CPU feature modalias handling existed before it was reimplemented
> generically. This patch aligns the x86 handling so that it
> (a) reuses some more code that is now generic;
> (b) uses the generic format for the modalias module metadata entry, i.e., it
>     now uses 'cpu:type:x86,venVVVVfamFFFFmodMMMM:feature:,XXXX,YYYY' instead of
>     the 'x86cpu:vendor:VVVV:family:FFFF:model:MMMM:feature,XXXX,YYYY' that was
>     used before.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>

Looks good, although I have not tested it.

Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa at linux.intel.com>

	-hpa





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